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On the heels of the latest school shooting in the U.S., which left a gunman and student dead in Oregon Tuesday, President Barack Obama let fly in a live chat with Tumblr’s founder, David Karp and got the usual heat on social media.

With gun legislation starting to move through Congress, President Barack Obama has asked the mother of a boy killed in last year’s shootings at a Newtown, Conn. elementary school to give his regular Saturday radio and video address.

Sen. Pat Toomey had a condition to co-sponsoring legislation that would increase background checks for gun purchases — that Sen. Chuck Schumer not show up for the press conference, according to Roll Call.

The number of murders in the U.S. in 2011 committed with rifles: 323. The number involving handguns? A whopping 6,220. Or 49% of the 12,664 homicides committed in the U.S. in 2011, according to FBI data. And that’s a longstanding pattern. See murder statistics by weapon. The huge gap suggests President Obama’s call for new firearm […]